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Sim. Here you, take these within; stay, Sosia, stay,

A word with you.

Sos. About the cookery

No doubt.

Sim. Nay, it is something else.

Sos. Whatever

It may be, I'll do my best.

Sim. It is not

Your active but your passive operation

That now I need; silence and secrecy;

Virtues I ever noted strong in you.

Sos. I am all attention.

Sim. Since I purchased you,

A little child, I have been just to you,

And clement in your servitude to me.

You served me well and I affranchised you;

So I repaid your service with the best

Return that I could make you.

Sos. Which I hold

In grateful recollection.

Sim. Nor do I

Repent your manumission.